“I have a memory like an elephant. I remember every elephant I've ever met.”

“A man begins cutting his wisdom teeth the first time he bites off more than he can chew.”

“Cockroaches and socialites are the only things that can stay up all night and eat anything.”

“I hope I go to Heaven, and when I do, I'm going to do what every San Franciscan does when he gets there. He looks around and says, 'It ain't bad, but it ain't San Francisco.'”

“A city is not gauged by its length and width, but by the broadness of its vision and the height of its dreams.”

“Americans are pragmatic, relatively uncomplicated, hearty and given to broad humor.”

“There used to be days that I thought I was okay, or at least that I was going to be. We'd be hanging out somewhere and everything would just fit right and I would think 'it will be okay if it can j...”

“I want to try with someone who loves me enough to try with me. I want to grow old looking at the same face every morning. I want to grow old looking at the same face every night at the dinner table...”

“Hes dozed off again, but I kiss him awake, which seems to startle him. Then he smiles as if hed be happy to lie there gazing at me forever.”

“Where there is life, there is hope.”

“Even as she began to slip into the gloaming of her life, the primal need to liveto survive...clawed at her soul.”

“All love is immortal.”